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MrBeast · 02-15-2008, 10:02 AM

Enervation has set in.

So today I busted my butt at work and knocked out all of the calls I had to do and got through my day so I could go get crackin on my truck.

As soon as I walked into the shop, I got my first piece of bad news, Summit Racing sent me the wrong throwout bearing, it was only a day late, and the wrong damn part. Even after I had called them twice to ensure it was the right bearing. So much for being through.

So as it were, the throwout bearing that came from my SM465 was still in really good shape so I opted to use it instead of goofing around any more. So we got everything Assembeled, stuffed the tranny up in the hole, and it stoped 1/2 an inch short of the engine, and would go no further. So after an hours worth of pushing shoving and playing with it, Back out the tranny came, only to discover that the needle style pilot bearing supplied by Advance Adapters was the wrong one for my NV4500!

So I figured ok, pull the new one out and stuffed a plane jane brass pilot bushing back in the crank, stuff the tranny in and I would be in buisness. Not hardly, I stuck the slide hammer in, gave it one whack and little pieces of needle bearing when flying, I spent the next 3 hours with a hammer, chissel, and a die grinder removing little pieces of pilot bearing from the back of my crank, I did it all with out maring the crank shaft.

So finally, the transmission went back up in the tunnel, slid into place and bolted in. Luckily the hole I had cut for the shifter was in the perfect location.

At this point I started to feel a lot better, I was starting to get excited, but my excitement would be short lived, When I stuffed the drive shaft in the hole, The front shaft turned out to be the correct leingth of 26.5" center of the front U-joint to the center of the Carrier bearing, but the back shaft was suposed to have a mean leingth of 52.5" from the center of the carrier bearing to the center of the rear U-joint. (Mean meaning in the middle of the slip joints travel)

So back to the shop it went, and my truck is still waiting.

More updates tomorrow.

02-15-2008, 10:02 AM	#16
MrBeast high-Tech Red Neck Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Livingston, MT/On my boat WA/BC/AK Posts: 2,294	Re: The Boss Hoss, 72 C/30, 454, DUALLY! Enervation has set in. So today I busted my butt at work and knocked out all of the calls I had to do and got through my day so I could go get crackin on my truck. As soon as I walked into the shop, I got my first piece of bad news, Summit Racing sent me the wrong throwout bearing, it was only a day late, and the wrong damn part. Even after I had called them twice to ensure it was the right bearing. So much for being through. So as it were, the throwout bearing that came from my SM465 was still in really good shape so I opted to use it instead of goofing around any more. So we got everything Assembeled, stuffed the tranny up in the hole, and it stoped 1/2 an inch short of the engine, and would go no further. So after an hours worth of pushing shoving and playing with it, Back out the tranny came, only to discover that the needle style pilot bearing supplied by Advance Adapters was the wrong one for my NV4500! So I figured ok, pull the new one out and stuffed a plane jane brass pilot bushing back in the crank, stuff the tranny in and I would be in buisness. Not hardly, I stuck the slide hammer in, gave it one whack and little pieces of needle bearing when flying, I spent the next 3 hours with a hammer, chissel, and a die grinder removing little pieces of pilot bearing from the back of my crank, I did it all with out maring the crank shaft. So finally, the transmission went back up in the tunnel, slid into place and bolted in. Luckily the hole I had cut for the shifter was in the perfect location. At this point I started to feel a lot better, I was starting to get excited, but my excitement would be short lived, When I stuffed the drive shaft in the hole, The front shaft turned out to be the correct leingth of 26.5" center of the front U-joint to the center of the Carrier bearing, but the back shaft was suposed to have a mean leingth of 52.5" from the center of the carrier bearing to the center of the rear U-joint. (Mean meaning in the middle of the slip joints travel) So back to the shop it went, and my truck is still waiting. More updates tomorrow. __________________ "He used to be a pretty nice feller, now he's a welder!"